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Bill would prohibit mandatory microchip implants
www.duluthsuperior.com ^ | Mon, Apr. 24, 2006 | RYAN J. FOLEY

Posted on 04/25/2006 6:16:28 AM PDT by Esther Ruth

Posted on Mon, Apr. 24,

Bill would prohibit mandatory microchip implants

RYAN J. FOLEY

MADISON, Wis. - Former Gov. Tommy Thompson was one of the first high-profile supporters of tiny microchips implanted in people's arms that would allow doctors to access medical information.

Now the state he used to lead is poised to become the first to ban governments and private businesses from forcing such implants on employees, privacy advocates say.

A proposal moving through the state Legislature would prohibit anyone from requiring people to have the tiny chips embedded in them or doing so without their knowledge. Violators would face fines of up to $10,000.

The plan authored by Rep. Marlin Schneider, D-Wisconsin Rapids, won approval in the Assembly last month. The state Senate on Tuesday is scheduled to consider the measure, which would allow for the implants if the person gives consent.

Gov. Jim Doyle would sign the bill.

Schneider aides say the legislator wants the law in place before companies and governments could use them to keep track of their employees.

"I don't think most people had thought about this as an issue, but it's scary. It's reality now," said Michael Schoenfield, an aide to Schneider. "Companies can or will be ordering their employees to have chips implanted. We want to stop that before it begins."

VeriChip Corp. of Delray Beach, Fla., is the only company with federal approval to implant such chips in people. The company so far has implanted 2,500 people worldwide with chips the size of a grain of rice under the skin of their upper arms, said spokesman John O. Procter.

Thompson endorsed this application last year as a way to give hospitals easy access to patients' medical records when he joined VeriChip's board of directors and vowed to "get chipped" himself.

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1 posted on 04/25/2006 6:16:29 AM PDT by Esther Ruth
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To: Esther Ruth

Logan's Run....we ain't...


2 posted on 04/25/2006 6:17:30 AM PDT by Fedupwithit (I, a stranger and afraid....in a world I never made)
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To: Esther Ruth

excerpt:

Wisconsin would be the first state to ban mandatory implants, said Katherine Albrecht, a New Hampshire privacy advocate and co-author of "Spychips: How Major Corporations and Government Plan to Track Your Every Move with RFID."

Albrecht said she recently handed Thompson a copy of her book when he was in New Hampshire giving a speech.


3 posted on 04/25/2006 6:18:55 AM PDT by Esther Ruth
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To: Esther Ruth

I see a very bad potential for this. On so many levels.


4 posted on 04/25/2006 6:19:40 AM PDT by KoRn
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To: Esther Ruth

I suppose if many states start requiring them people can always move up to WI.


5 posted on 04/25/2006 6:22:45 AM PDT by KoRn
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To: Esther Ruth

aww man! I want a micro chip! :)


6 posted on 04/25/2006 6:24:31 AM PDT by Echo Talon
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To: Esther Ruth

We already have SS numbers. That should be enough.
Now if we can just keep the gov't from making them mandatory in animals we will still have some semblance of freedoms.


7 posted on 04/25/2006 6:26:19 AM PDT by Mrs. Shawnlaw (No NAIS! And the USDA can bugger off, too!)
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To: KoRn
They'll put a chip in every breathing thing on the planet and whatever else they can. Strange only 1 state gives a hoot, ok - back to 24 or whatever everyones watchin - zzzzzzz.
8 posted on 04/25/2006 6:28:21 AM PDT by Esther Ruth
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To: Esther Ruth
Bill would prohibit mandatory microchip implants

That's funny. I would have thought the Constitution and Bill of Rights had taken care of that already...

9 posted on 04/25/2006 6:28:56 AM PDT by Live and let live conservative (Capitalism: It works, give it a try America.)
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To: Live and let live conservative

Bureaucracies and organizations don't seem to have to follow the Constitution. Humane Society has been doing this for several years w/o owner's permission under the guise 'if you care about your pet'. Then it grew into a good idea for alzheimer's victims and escalated into 'its for the chiiiiiiilllldreeeeennnnnn.


10 posted on 04/25/2006 6:31:56 AM PDT by Mrs. Shawnlaw (No NAIS! And the USDA can bugger off, too!)
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To: Esther Ruth

Isn't there something about this in Revelation?


11 posted on 04/25/2006 6:34:13 AM PDT by JZelle
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To: Esther Ruth

My favorite part of all this is that Thompson (the guy who wants us all chipped) still isn't chipped himself. That alone should be a clue that there's something not quite right about the whole thing (as if we needed another one).


12 posted on 04/25/2006 6:42:06 AM PDT by faloi
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To: JZelle

"Isn't there something about this in Revelation?"
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All too frightening isn't?

I guess if this comes to pass I will have to be prepared to forfeit everything. I already know I will never accept having a "mark" put on or in me.


13 posted on 04/25/2006 6:46:47 AM PDT by wmfights (Lead, Follow, or Get Out Of The WAY!)
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To: JZelle

I was thinking that too . . .


14 posted on 04/25/2006 6:47:00 AM PDT by cvq3842
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To: JZelle
Will this be the mark of the Beast?

I tend to easily think so - and how perfect for this Christian nation to reign in the acceptance of it. If the nation that claims a good portion holding to a literal interpretation of the New Testament give the thumbs up on the RFID in your hand, the rest will follow, so who best to sell and peer pressure the thing on first but evangelicals. The most pressure will come from believers who do not hold to a literal interpretation possibly.

It is clear (I believe) in the book of Revelation what the outcome will be for those who do not take it.

Rev 14:9 And the third angel followed them, saying with a loud voice, If any man worship the beast and his image, and receive [his] mark in his forehead, or in his hand,

Rev 14:10 The same shall drink of the wine of the wrath of God, which is poured out without mixture into the cup of his indignation; and he shall be tormented with fire and brimstone in the presence of the holy angels, and in the presence of the Lamb:

Rev 14:11 And the smoke of their torment ascendeth up for ever and ever: and they have no rest day nor night, who worship the beast and his image, and whosoever receiveth the mark of his name.

Rev 14:12 Here is the patience of the saints: here [are] they that keep the commandments of God, and the faith of Jesus.

Rev 14:13 And I heard a voice from heaven saying unto me, Write, Blessed [are] the dead which die in the Lord from henceforth: Yea, saith the Spirit, that they may rest from their labours; and their works do follow them.
15 posted on 04/25/2006 7:06:45 AM PDT by Esther Ruth
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To: faloi

Credit card companies speak happily and with anticipated relief re the chip in the hand as if this is all a quite done deal and will all be in place in just a few years to relieve us of all the complications that we suffer.


16 posted on 04/25/2006 7:16:09 AM PDT by Esther Ruth (Verily, verily, I say unto thee, Except a man be born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God.)
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To: Esther Ruth
I'm pretty shaky on the technology here so maybe somebody else knows the answer: could a strong magnetic field (like a bulk eraser) disable one of these chips?
17 posted on 04/25/2006 8:14:08 AM PDT by Gingersnap
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To: Gingersnap
I dunno, haven't followed it much, I am sorry.
Cutting off your hand would disable it :0
But if it's in your forehead - well who would cut off their head....??
Hey, but how about the lack of noise regarding this in the land of the brave, home of the free. I guess Hannity who has felt it's a dandy idea for years and any other conservatives??? have calmed many anxious nerves.

And you thought the peer pressure in high school to smoke a joint was tough - adults can't even handle their fellow conservatives laughing at them.
18 posted on 04/25/2006 8:49:24 AM PDT by Esther Ruth (Verily, verily, I say unto thee, Except a man be born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God.)
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To: Esther Ruth

"Hey, but how about the lack of noise regarding this in the land of the brave, home of the free."
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That speaks volumes about how serious we are about our Christianity. Look how far we have fallen in two generations. We kill babies before they are born. We have all kinds of relations outside of marriage. We are now "normalizing" homosexual behavior and talking about "gay marriage". We worship at the altar of "TOLERANCE".


19 posted on 04/25/2006 9:40:42 AM PDT by wmfights (Lead, Follow, or Get Out Of The WAY!)
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To: Mrs. Shawnlaw

Getting chipped...it's for the "common good". (More like the "communist good".)


20 posted on 04/27/2006 7:06:32 PM PDT by bigdcaldavis (Xandros : In a world without fences, who needs Gates?)
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